Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Captain R. N. Simpson, Kenya Regiment and King’s African Rifles
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Efficiency Medal, E.II.R., 2ns issue, Kenya (Capt. R. N. Simpson) mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £250-300

Robert Noel Simpson was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, on 22 December 1913 and was educated between 1923 and 1930 at King's School, Grantham, Lincolnshire. Passing the Cambridge Matriculation Examination, he was a member of the School O.T.C. Between 1931 and 1935 he was a Life Insurance Salesman working for the Confederation Life of Canada and in 1935 to 1936 trained as a Layout Artist and Copywriter with Charles Angrave and Export Advertising Services in London. In April 1937 he emigrated to Kenya to join the Kenya Advertising Corporation Ltd as General Manager. He joined the Kenya Regiment (Territorial Army) in June 1937, was mobilised in August 1939 and was posted to the 3rd Battalion King's African Rifles and served in North Africa, Ceylon, India and Burma. Discharged from the Army in December 1945 he rejoined his own Company and from there was a successful businessman forming companies for Advertising, Manufacturing, Insurance and Travel. He died on 30 November 1985 in Nairobi. With copied research including photographs and with four CD’s containing the same.